Never fessed up to this before, but figured I may as well, 'cause why not?

For a brief period of time — 2001-2002 — my parents operated a marijuana grow-op here, in the very basement of our now-condemn-worthy decayed shit-shanty excuse for a home. Not alone, of course; they had business partners who supplied the tables, lights, etc. Then one rainy April night, my mother made the stupid mistake of burning cannabis leaves/stalks in the wood stove, which sent a lovely hempy miasma into the air, alerting neighbours who called the fire department. From there, police got in on the action. They busted in doors, arrested my parents, confiscated all the plants and growing equipment, yada yada yada.

My parents were released the following day, but charges had been filed. After a number of years of hearings and delays and other legal mumbo-jumbo I don’t really understand, my parents received house arrest. A relatively light sentence, all things considered. Still, it was bullshit. All this hassle for what? Growing pot — organic pot, by the way — which never hurt anyone. My parents didn’t even benefit that much from the operation; their partners did. Hell, you just had to look at the state of the house even back then to tell we weren’t raking in the green.

tl;dr: Cops suck, Canadian cops unexempted. Fuck them and the corrupt bourgeois state they serve.